#chicagoGirl (2013)
The Social Network Takes on a Dictator
From her childhood bedroom in the Chicago suburbs, an American teenage girl uses social media to run the revolution in Syria. Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network in Damascus and Homs braves snipers and shelling in the streets and the world the human rights atrocities of one of the most brutal dictators. But as the revolution rages on, everyone in the network must decide what is the most effective way to fight a dictator: social media or AK-47s.
- Date of release
- 2013-11-21
- TMDB
- 6.2 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Joe Piscatella
Casting
- Ala'a Basatneh — Self - #chicagoGirl
- Aous Al-Mubarak — Self
- Bassel Shehadeh — Self
- Mazhar 'Omar' Tayara — Self - Citizen Journalist
- David Gorodyansky — Self - Internet Security Expert
- Sascha Meinrath — Self - Director, Open Technology Institute
- Zeynep Tufekci — Self - Berkman Center, Harvard University
- Kurt Andersen — Self - Writer, 'The Potester' for Time's Person of the Year 2011
- Wael Ghonim — Self - Internet Activist
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